I'm very aware of Patreon. I'm considering using it to sell bundles of revision resources/ access to tuition.
I think it could work.
ATM it's better than steem/ SMTs simply because of functionality... i.e. people can actually pay me through it with fiat.
I've thought about it and I just can't think of any advantages for me as a tutor working on steem or with SMTs.
NB I haven't thought this through properly - but atm I could make patreon work for me as a tutor. I can't make steem work for me.
I mean how many parents are going to set up a bittrex and steem account, buy bitcoin, transfer it to steem, just so they can pay me when PayPal's already integrated with patreon?!?
NB NB - if there was better integration with steem and other external social media platforms then there'd be no problem... that's got to be the dapp future.. integration of steem and sites like patreon.
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This is what has to happen for mainstreaming crypto in general as the hurdles are much too high for 95% of the world which is why so few people are in crypto now. THe possibility of specialised community/iterfaces to do what you want is very high in my opinion, when is the question though.
but if you think that Pareon distributed/handled 100M from 2014 to 2017. At current prices, Steem has distributed in rewards 50M from 2016-2018. Considering the hurdles and that if Steem goes to 2 dollars, that doubles in value, it isn't too bad.
It is pretty good going for sure and potentially explosive I agree.
Interesting to make the comparison. I guess they are quite similar in their subscription payment model.
It'd be interesting if steem evolved to allow exlusive access based on a certain weight of upvote.
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